Monday, June 22, 2026

High school students

So what was it about the Parkland killings that tipped the scale? This is among the questions we teachers have been asking one another at school recently.

Our opponents’ actions show we’re winning

Together, we can create transformational change. We are closer than we realize.

Global inequality is 25% higher than it would have been in a climate-stable world

As is becoming increasingly clear, there are no quick fixes or easy solutions to climate change or inequality.

Why the government makes filing your taxes intentionally difficult

"Congress should be making it easier for Americans to file their taxes each year, not bowing to the interests of the tax prep industry."

Record inequality and corporate profits are what media call a ‘strong economy’

What explains corporate media’s credulous reliance on uninformative economic measures, and contradictory references to a “strong economy,” alongside reports on a struggling working class?

Bernie Sanders Wins TIME Readers’ Poll for Person of the Year, Still Snubbed from...

Bernie Sanders won the people's vote - coming in first for the TIME Readers' poll for person of the year. So why didn't TIME include him on the shortlist of final candidates?
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Watch Stephen Colbert’s hilarious re-enactment of FBI agent Peter Strzok’s insane House hearing

'Trump is a f—ing idiot'; and 'WHAT THE F— HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY??!?!'"

The media and the earthquake

Our critic despairs of political coverage ever being put back together again.

Net Neutrality, Back by Popular Demand

During the past two decades, as the Internet flourished and transformed our society, several major corporations have assumed dominant “gatekeeper” positions, threatening net neutrality. We must protect net neutrality.

Kanye West should visit the Montgomery Slavery Memorial, and take President Trump with him

There is a space in the heart of Alabama that might be just the place for Kanye West to reflect on slavery.